Another quote to live by

A family member who is a fellow birding enthusiast sent me a book called The Verb 'To Bird'. At first, I found it a rather silly book, full of bad jokes and too many digressions; its author, one Peter Cashwell, I had pegged as a silly man.

But I soon started to get into the book and enjoy it, and in one chapter, Mr. Cashwell makes an important point of the usefulness of tossing aside preconceived notions, and allowing the process of observation to take over when trying to solve a problem. He quotes Huang Po, a Chinese Zen master, as follows:

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

I think those few words sum up what I so often try to hammer home in this blog. The quote could serve as the foundation of my world view.